Word: hired
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call to your attention certain facts which were given to me at the time Marian Anderson publicized this same situation a few years ago. Will you please corroborate these facts for us. Is there not a statute of long standing in the city of Washington specifying that Negroes cannot hire the use of public halls designated for white people? Does not the D.A.R. lease the auditorium of Constitution Hall ... to a management agency which has complete authority in matters of renting the use of this auditorium...
...James C. Petrillo, ingenious czar of the American Federation of Musicians, outdid himself in a new dispute with the radio networks: when stations broadcast a musical program over regular channels and FM at the same time, he ruled they will have to hire a second orchestra to stand...
...from Poland at 16 with a few candy recipes and a fiddle he liked to play. He took a job in a candy factory near the Philadelphia wharves, invented a marshmallow syrup, made enough to buy the factory. Last year he had saved up enough money to hire 75 members of the famed Philadelphia Orchestra in their off hours. On the top floor of his factory, he rehearsed them in musical bonbons by Johann Strauss and Offenbach, and piped both the sweet and sour notes to the candy kitchens below. Then he took his Pops Orchestra on a tour...
Thereafter, though Ruppel was executive editor, he hardly had even the right to hire & fire. (On the old Times, Ruppel once fired a reporter for saying "I think," on the grounds that only Ruppel was paid to think...
...nation's contractors and real estate men, were just as grimly determined to dump L-41, scrap any other ceiling plan. Said they: 1) L41 is retarding normal building activity just when it is most needed; 2) the sooner the building industry gets going, the sooner it can hire the four to eight million workers it will need; 3) materials and labor will be so plentiful by the time the building boom gets under way next spring that competitive production alone will hold prices down. The whole price problem was of such prime importance that President Truman would probably...